Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-12
go. THE NEW GAME LAW.
AS Amended and Passed by the Present
Legislature.

Legislature.
The game law of the State, as just
enacted, is formed By amending Sections
626 e3l and 636 of the Penal Code, and
reads as follows:
Section l. Section 626 of an Act entitled
An Ac. to establish Penal Code, APP
proved February IA, 1872, is hereby
amended so as to read as follows; 626.
Every person who, in the State of Califor-
MIA, between the LIST day of March and the
10th day OF September, in each year, hunts,
pursues takes, kills or destroys quail,
cartridges, or grouse, or rail, is guilty OF
a misdemeanor. Every person who, IN
any OF the counties of this State at any
time takes, gathers, or destroys the eggs of
any quail, partridge, or grouse, is guilty OF
a misdemeanor. Every person who, In
this State between the lst day OF January
and the 1st day of June, in each year,
hunts, pursues, takes, kills. or destroys
doves. is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every
person who. between the 18th day of De-
cember, in each year, and the LIST day OF
July in the following year, hunts, pursues,
takes, kills, or destroys any male antelope,
deer, or buck, is guilty Of misdemeanor.
Every person in the State of California who
has in his possession any hides or any
o
sheen. killed between the 18th day of De-
cember and the LIST day of July, is guilty Of
q misdemeanor. Every person who shall
at any time, in the State of California,
hunt, pursue, take, kill, or destroy any fe-
male antelope, elk, mountain sheep, female
deer, or doe shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor. Every person who shall at any
time hunt, pursue, take kill, or destroy
any spotted fawn, is guilty OF INSIDE
meanor. Every person who shall take,
kill OF destroy any of the animals men
toned in this section, at any time. unless
the carcass of such animal is used or pre-
scented by the person taking or Staying it,
or is sold for food, is guilty of a misde-
meanors Every person who shall buy,
sell, offer, or expose for sale, transport, or
have in his possession any deer, or deer
skin or hide from which evidence of sex
has been removed, or any of the aforesaid
game at time when it is unlawful to kill
the same provided by this and subsequent
sections, is guilty of misdemeanor.
Section 2. Sc ton 631 of the same Act
is hereby amended so as to read as follows ::
63I. Every person who shall at any time
net or pound any quail, partridge or grouse,
and any person who shall sell, buy, trans
port or give away, or offer or expose for
sale, or have in his possession, any quail,
partridge or grouse that have been shared,
captured, or taken in by means of any net
or pound, is guilty OF a misdemeanor
Proof of possession of any quail, partridge,
or grouse, which shall not show evidence
of having been taken by means of other
than q net or pound, shall be prima facie
evidence in any prosecution for violation
of the provisions of this section that the
person in whose possession such quail,
partridge, or grouse is found took, killed,
or destroyed the same by means of net
or pound.
Section s. Section 636 of the same Act is
hereby amended so as to read as follows
636. Every person who shall set. use,
or continue, or who shall assist in set
ting, using or continuing, any pound, Weir
set net, trap, or any other fixed or perma-
nent contrivance for catching fish, in the
waters OF this State, is guilty of misde-
meanor. Every person who shall cast ex-
tend or set any seine or net of any kind
for the catching of in any river, stream or
slough of this State, which shall extend
more than one-third across the width of
said river, stream or slough at the time and
place of such fishing is guilty of a misde-
meanor. Every person who shall cast, ex-
tend, set, use or continue, or who shall as
sist in casting, extending using or con-
tinuing, Chinese sturgeon lines or
F" Chinese shrimp or bag nets, or lines or
nets of similar character. for the catching
of fish in the waters of this State, is guilty
of misdemeanor. Every person who, by
seine or other means, shall catch the young
fish of any species. and who shall not re-
turn the same to the water Immediately
and alive or shall sell or offer for sale any
such fish, fresh or dried, is guilty of a mis-
demeanor Every person convicted of a
violation OF any of the provisions of this
chapter shall be punished by fine of not
less than $50 and not more than $780, or
Imprisonment IN the county Jail of the
county where the effense was committed
for not less than thirty days nor more than
six months, or by both such fine and inn
prisonment. 0ne-third Of all moneys col
lected for fines for violation OF the provi-
.sions of this chapter to be paid to inf0rmer,
one-third to the District Attorney OF the
county in which the action is prosecuted.
and one-third to the Fish Commissioners
Fund of the State of California. Nothing
in this chapter shall be construed to pro-
hibit the United States Fish Commissioners
or the Fish Commissioners Of the State of
California from taking such fish as they
shall deem necessary for the purpose of
artificial Matching, nor at any time. 1t shall
not be lawful for any person to buy or sell,
'or offer or expose for sale, within this
State, any kind of trout Except brook
trout less than eight inches in length. Any
person violating any of the provisions of
this section is guilty of misdemeanor.
The Board of Supervisors of the several
counties of this State are authorized, by or
dinance duly passed and published, to
change the beginning or ending of the
close season named in Section 626 of this
Code, So as to make the same conform to
the needs of their respective counties,
whenever in their judgment they deem the
same advisable
Section 4 This Act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.